Part of the hilarity of The Boss Baby is how clearly targeted towards an older audience it is, with its jokes that are much too snarky and its references that are too old for children.

Beyond that, a TV spin-off still poses a great challenge. Turning a movie into a television show is always a risk, and in The Boss Baby’s case, there are specific challenges that would have to be immediately addressed: the fact that Miles Bakshi, who played Tim, is now too old to pull off a child’s voice and would have to be recast, and tweaking the ending of the film to make way for a story continuation. While the plot would have to change somewhat from the conclusion of the film to allow the Boss Baby to take charge again, the change would hardly feel like an intrusion into the already wild storyline. In fact, the universe that the film creates has enough potential to span many more stories - stories that might actually be told better as short episodes, rather than sequels attempting to pack a punch at the box office.

The Boss Baby as a movie is a fun adventure about where babies come from (a company), and despite the extremes the comedy goes to, it never runs out of jokes. Smart babies like Maggie from The Simpsons and Stewie from Family Guy have also become instant classics, but The Boss Baby is the first movie to really put the baby at the center of the show - and create an entire corporate universe around him. Most notable among its predecessors is Rugrats, which ran for 13 years and produced multiple spin-offs and crossovers.

This isn’t the first movie to give us a unique glimpse into childhood’s realities - or its make-believe.

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